The sounds of an ancient Chinese instrument will fill the Englert Theatre Sunday afternoon. The guzheng, an 18-string zither-like instrument believed to be more than 2,500 years old, will take center ...

Ancient Chinese music performed by husband-and-wife duo Wang Jian-xin and Li Feng-yun on the historic instruments qin and xiao will be featured at Brigham Young University Friday, Sept. 18, in the ...

A collection of ancient jaw harps dating back some 4,000 years ago were unearthed in northwest China's Shaanxi Province, archaeologists announced at a press conference Monday. More than 20 ancient jaw ...

We’re assuming that when the musical instrument known as the sheng was invented in China thousands of years ago, no one knew that it would one day be used to play a magically spot-on version of the ...

It’s fair to say that whoever invented the sheng, an ancient Chinese wind instrument, had no concept of 8-bit Italian plumbers. The golden era of the NES would come a good, oh, 3,000 years in the ...

Allison Hernandez is modest and soft spoken, but when she picks up the erhu, she slips into another world. With a slight smile on her face and closed eyes, she moves with the music, as she draws her ...

Chinese archaeologists working in Hubei province’s Zaoyang City have unearthed an ancient stringed instrument dating back thousands of years. It’s said to be the earliest ever found in China. Above: a ...

Zhao Zeming, the concert's music director and a young composer, states that the guqin and the Grand Canal mirror two ...

EVERETT— Know what an erhu is? An ancient Chinese musical instrument, it’s a two-stringed bowed fiddle of sorts. Perhaps you’ve seen it played on street corners in big cities with Chinatown ...

Chinese sheng player Wu Tong and Japanese sho player Mayumi Miyata perform in Beijing on March 29. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] On March 29, Chinese sheng player Wu Tong shared the stage with ...

Look what Tastefully Offensive found that Gizmodo found that we found: a girl playing the Super Mario Bros. theme on a sheng, “a Chinese instrument invented thousands of years ago.” What’s so neat ...